17Interpretation

17 Interpretation

(1) In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears:

constable means a member or special member of the Australian Federal Police or a member of the police force of a State or Territory.

female dependant of a national serviceman means a female who is wholly or partly dependent for her support upon the pay of, or upon a pension payable in consequence of the incapacity or death of, a person who is or has been a national serviceman and includes:

(a) the wife of a person who has been a national serviceman and, although not receiving a pension, is receiving from the Commonwealth medical treatment of such a nature as to prevent him either wholly or partly from engaging in his occupation; and

(b) the widow of a person who died while rendering national service.

land includes messuages, tenements and hereditaments, and houses and buildings, and also includes any estate or interest in land (legal or equitable), and any easement, right, power or privilege over, in, or in connexion with, land.

mortgage means a mortgage (legal or equitable) of land.

pension means a pension (including a service pension) under the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986.

the moratorium date, in relation to a national serviceman or a female dependant of a national serviceman, means:

(a) if neither of the next two succeeding paragraphs applies in relation to the national serviceman—the last day of the period within which the national serviceman was required to register under the National Service Act 1951‑1965;

(b) if the national serviceman applied in accordance with subsection (1) or subsection (1A) of section 16 of that Act to be registered under that Act, the application was granted and the next succeeding paragraph does not apply in relation to him—the day on which the prescribed form of registration under that Act was received from the national serviceman by a Registrar at a National Service Registration Office established in accordance with that Act; or

(c) if the national serviceman has at any time been granted under section 31 of that Act a deferment of his liability to render service under that Act—the day on which there was served upon the national serviceman a notice under section 26 of that Act calling him up for service with the Military Forces of the Commonwealth, being a notice that has not been revoked.

(2) Where any female was wholly or partly dependent for her support upon the pay of a national serviceman, but is no longer so dependent merely by reason of an allotment of pay made to that female having been suspended, that female shall be deemed to be a female dependant of a national serviceman within the meaning of this section.